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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

2016 Year in Review: Mountains, not working.

I'm not just a mountain guide. I am a climber and skier that guides. And I hope that the numbers show that. Well, the numbers probably show that I'm a "counter" that goes to the mountains. I hope that isn't true... Ha. These numbers are deduced mainly from my training log. So it won't necessarily jive with my guiding numbers, as posted just prior. For instance, I worked 34 days on trips that I considered "alpine guiding", but only spent 24 days alpine climbing. Lets look at a 2-day Grand Teton trip then... The whole trip is alpine guiding. But as far as my activity log is concerned, day 1 is hiking and day 2 is an alpine climb. Hence any sort of disparity.

That should add up to 366. I'm not going to bother with the math. You get the gist of it. This notes the primary activity for the day. Many days I did something else. For instance, I lifted weights many more days than 7. But that doesn't make it into the primary activity column.

104 nights away from home, but not in the backcountry. The bulk of this was camping around the west on the annual Rocktober pilgrimage. But I also visited family, toured Alaska, and worked from huts and hotels in Silverton, Cody, the Alps, Dubois, and Lake Louise Alberta.